In 1978, director Richard Attenborough and writer William Goldman teamed up to parlay the success they had with their war film A Bridge Too Far into a psychological thriller. The movie they ended up making was Magic, featuring a crazy looking ventriloquist dummy that is so terrifying, it still haunts the nightmares of anyone who […]
Film Review: ‘Super 8’
Synopsis: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the […]
Cinema Fearité presents The Brood (Dir. David Cronenberg 1979)
Before he made The Fly, The Dead Zone, Videodrome and Scanners in the 80’s, David Cronenberg wrote and directed The Brood in 1979. Although not his directorial debut, The Brood was his first commercially successful film. While by no means as popular as the films he would make in the decade after its release, The […]
Cinema Fearité presents Peeping Tom (Dir. Michael Powell 1960)
Observant viewers of Scream 4 will have caught a reference to Michael Powell’s 1960 suspenseful masterpiece Peeping Tom. In the film, a character claims that Peeping Tom, and not Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, is the first slasher movie. While it’s true that Peeping Tom beat Psycho to theaters by three months and has a higher body […]
Cinema Fearité presents Alone In The Dark (Dir. Jack Sholder 1982)
Nineteen Eighty-Two saw the release of the third Friday the 13th movie (in 3D!), which was the first film in the franchise in which Jason donned his famous hockey mask. That mask transformed Jason from a simple camp killer to an Iconic Movie Villain. However, most people are unaware that another movie murderer also picked […]
